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Summary: Abby is introduced by Lee Artz, professor of media studies, Purdue University Northwest. She speaks about her experience at RT and press freedom; reporting from Palestine and covering Venezuela. She explains the rational for her current show "Empire Files" and why her reporting on conditions in the United States has resulted in characterization of her journalism as a threat to national security by the same interests who lied the U.S. into war against Iraq.

Notes: Abby Martin, is host of The Empire Files, an investigative news program on the satellite network teleSUR English. She was formerly host of Breaking the Set on the Russian network RT, America, working from the Washington, D.C. bureau. She is an artist an activist, and helped found the citizen journalism website Media Roots. She serves on the board of directors
for the Media Freedom Foundation which manages Project Censored. (program)